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Article: A Transnational Sense of "Home": Twentieth-Century West Indian Immigration and Institution Building in the Bronx
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- Afro - Americans in New York Life and History
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier Jul 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Caribbean immigration remains central to New York City's history, as more than a million migrants from various Caribbean territories have settled the city's neighborhoods from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Furthermore, Caribbean migrants have made invaluable contributions to this city's economy, political landscape, and cultural production. Especially after changing immigration laws in 1965 widened the possibility for entry to the US, the city's cadre of Caribbean migrants increased exponentially. This paper focuses in particular on migrants to the Bronx from the Anglophone Caribbean (conventionally known due to Columbus's blunders as the West Indies), and seeks to place ...